IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi make it to the top 200 of QS World University Rankings 2017

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi have made it to the top 200 in QS World University Rankings 2017.

IISc is placed in the 152th position while IIT Delhi secured 185th rank. Other IITs like, IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharaqpur, IIT Roorkee and IIT Guwahati are included in the top 500 in the rankings.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Harvard University, University of Cambridge and California Institute of Technology gained top five positions in the rankings.

In Engineering and Technology Degrees subject category, India is represented by 6 institutes in top 150 with five IITs and IISc. In top 50 Asian universities, five Indian institutes are listed in which IISc ranked 33 and rest are IITs (IIB, IITD, IITM and IITK). In Arts and Humanities subject category, DU is placed in 210th position with Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in 247th position. In Social sciences, DU and JNU are in Top 400.

The QS World University Rankings by Subject ranks the world's top universities in individual subject areas, covering 46 subjects as of 2017. The rankings aim to help prospective students identify the world's leading schools in their chosen field, with the list of subjects extended each year in response to high demand for subject-level comparisons.

GS ranking use four components which are combined to produce the results for each of the subject rankings, with weightings adapted for each discipline: Academic reputation, Employer reputation, Research citations per paper, H-index.